RT Journal
T1 MEdical news
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD June 24
VO 112
IS 25
SP 2613
OP 2616
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800250037020
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800250037020
AB ALABAMA
Outbreak of Gonococcic Ophthalmia.—
A gonococcic infection was said to be the cause of a recent outbreak of thirty-nine cases of ophthalmia in a rural school having an enrolment of 140. Some of the patients were convalescent when first seen, but nine of the cases were proved to be due to the gonococcus. The disease was introduced into the school by a boy who had acquired the infection from an adult similarly infected. When all the pupils were examined for genital infection, none of the boys was found infected but seven small girls were found to have gonorrheal vaginitis.ARKANSAS
Appropriation to Medical School Increased.—
The Arkansas legislature recently granted to the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock, an increase in its annual appropriation from $70,000 to $300,000. The increase was granted chiefly to enable the school to take over the Little Rock City Hospital, with a